Baggage check



Sept. 7, 1943. A, SWET JR 2,328,692

BAGGAGE CBBCK Original Filed Nov. 5, 1940 INVENTO QrEhur/if 211, J3

Mull

A TTORNEY.

Patented Sept. :7, 1943 1:1 brizinal application, ovexnber se a re ssu Di ide -a i ern eeti n et- Y 1 '3' Glaims. 4 "(CL 40-20) v In my pending application SerialNo. 3.64;

of which this present application is aid 7 ,1 the 1.e;is.set fortha tag appliance cdihpr smg a I n the drawingj j .p cejof stiff sheet material, as cardboard, and a Fig; 1'-is a frontelevation'offone form *f a "coupling consisting ofa stripof stiff elasticjrria-,- .5 che kappliahce embodying the present inventerial,,as-wire,rebent midwayits length and liav a it ingitse'xtremitie's rebent and crossing each other, F1gs. 2 and? 'are'sinii'lar elevations'of two other the coupling being so securedto the piece as to forms; and

be fast thereto and lie in close relation to the I Fig. 4i is a fragmentary side elevation of the plane thereof." The construction presents these 10 form shown in Fig; 1, with the coupling and the advantages: The appliance can be assembled with portion of the check to which it is immediately others in face to face and hence compact state clamped displaced from the initial state shown and the assembling and: also the removal from i by Fig. 1.,

the pack thus formed of any one appliance can Referring, first, to the form shown in Figs. 1 readily be performed because the coupling exists and 4; A piece of stiff sheet material, as cardas a unit with and in face to face relation to said ,board, forms the check or check proper I, being piece. To attach the appliance to the handlelinearly weakened hereby an arcuate slit 2 whose ring of a satchel or the like requires but a simple termini are directed toward and are adjacent one thrust-wise effort in which the rebentor hooked of the margins of the h being here shown, extremitiesof the coupling would be directed tothough not necessarily, enlarged to form holes 2a. ward and cammed apart by the ring so as to catch The section or tab la (which forms the stub of thereon. The appliance is particularly adapted the check) thus pa i y circumscribed by e as a baggage check if, as in all the forms shown weakening ay b bent Out f the plane O e in said application, that part'of the piece of sheet Y s ion of h forming the mers materialto which thecoupling is immediately receipt, thereupon to be torn therefrom, as will secured is readilyseparable from the other part ppear. The couplin is a stiff elastic st ip, as of the piece whereby, the two parts being prowire, rebent at 3 and having ts e ies 4 divided with identical identifying data, one part verging and their terminals themselves rebent to will serve as a receipt to be handed to the owner form hOOks' and crossing and in close-lying rewhile the other remains attached by the coupling 3( lation to each other. The coup i g exists with its to the baggage article. l extremities 4 penetrating a slot In: in the tab la. The invention specifically set-forth in this my h S d extremities s penetrating t ab present application contemplatesthat the appli-' 0 stub the coupling is then bent so as to clamp ance shall include, with the said coupling, a check. the'stub b w n t e po t on of the coup or check proper of stiff sheet material formed 3 eluding the rebend 3 and the po o s f Sa d with linear weakening so disposed, for substanextremities Which are at the pposite face of the tially its full length, as to divide the check into Q leaving latter portions crossing the. two sections normally existing connected and in llnear weakenin d in s y relation t0 substantially the same plane, the coupling being the check. Whereas said extremities cross the secured 'to' one section the same as in my said 40 weakening said rebent 3 should lie, as shown, pending application but having its extremities Wholly Within the area f t e Stub.

crossing the weakening and, as above, lying close Thelmit formed by the S n Coupling y to the plane of the check; as will appear, the said be torn away from the rest of the appliance (reweakening' may be bent or straight. The weakce'ipt lb) and thenattachedto the bagga e in ening permits the two sections, which may have he W y ind he r i being surrendered. identifying data, to be separated, leaving onej'or t0 t C Of Course t a ac ng may the stub, attached by the coupling to the article be first effected and then the receipt torn away.

to be checked and the other to'be delivered to lnth'e' o m thus described the Stub and receiptv the owner of the article as his receipt. Theat may bear duplicated identifying data such as is taching to thebaggage article may be efiected in 5 shown at I, for instance, in Figs. 2 and 3.

the simple manner above indicated, or by a In Fig-2 the construction is essentially the thrustwise eifort, and the appliance may exist, same as already described except that the linear as shown by the examples herein presented,with weakening, a slit 6, is of rectangular form, de-

the coupling contained wholly within the area of veloping a long tongue-like stub la. The duplithe check, whereby when assembled with others. I cated indicia are shown at I.

In Fig. 3 the check 8 is traversed from one to the other side margin by a line of perforations, or it may be scoring, forming the linear weakening 9 and dividing the check into two sections 8a and 8b bearing the duplicated indicia 1. The

coupling, l0, formed the same as already described, penetrates one'section, as the stub 8a, near the weakening, and extends across the latter into close-lying relation to the other section 8b, forming the customers receipt. The clamping of the stub by the coupling is the same as already J described.

, Because the coupling is in rigid and face-f to-face relation to the check and crosses 'the'f linear weakening it incidentally serves as a reinforce or so as to aid in preserving the check in its normally fiat state, particularly against" ina'd vertent bending of the stub out of the plane of a the customers receipt. 4

By the construction shown by Fig. 1, when the owner retrieves'the baggage"articleonlyyan inconspicuous part of the check proper remains attached to the article and it will alsoappear mutilated so that the appliance cannot be resoldby the porter or other agent. In the forms shown -;by Figs. 2 and 3, the owner can readily'tearlthe stub away from the coupling, thus'to accomplish the same purposes.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is: t

v v 1. In a check appliance, the combination of 'a I check formed of stiff sheet material having two j sections, each bounded in part by a common linear weakening, said sections normally existing A maintained in substantially the same plane, and *a coupling consisting of a stifi elastic strip having airebend and having both extremities pene I trating one section and the rebend at one face .and portions of said extremities at the other face i of said 'sectiona'nd said rebend and portions 00- acting to clamp said section, said extremities a crossing said weakening and lying close to the plane of the" check and having their terminals themselves rebentand crossing each other.

. 2. The combination set forth in claim 1 characterized by said weakening existing crooked and having its terminals each adjacent amargin of ,3.;The combination'set forth in claim'l characterized by said weakening extending generally 2 gtraight across the check.

A ee sWETr; JR; 

